26 January 2010 9:28 AM

Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play a same sex couple who have two teenage children thanks to a sperm donor.

Annette plays the somewhat uptight doctor who brings home the bacon while Julianne looks after the kids played by Mia Wasikowska (pictured left with Julianne). She's barely 20 and she's going to be huge thanks to this film and the forthcoming Alice In Wonderland. Her sibling co-star is Josh Hutcherson. The film's called The Kids Are Alright and, believe me, these kids are totally alright.

Director Lisa Cholodenko and her co-screenplay writer Stuart Blumberg bring another element into the story - the kids find the dude who provided the seed that helped create them.

That dude is played by Mark Ruffalo and once he enters the scene all kinds of stuff goes down and it would be cruel of me to give anything away except to say that. The Kids Are Alright is funny, tender, heartfelt and fascinating.

Society has developed in such a way that the composition of a family isn't just the traditional mum, dad plus two children. Families nowadays are composed of gay couples, divorced couples, conventional couples, stepmother and stepfathers and so on and that's the beauty and joy of The Kids Are Alright which had its world premiere at Sundance on Monday night.

It's very accessible and audiences are going to love it.by the time you see it later in the year the producers might have been able to afford to use the famous song by the Who.

Halfway through the screening my pal Roger Friedman of the Hollywood Reporter whispered, actually Roger doesn't whisper but anyway, and declared that The Kids Are Alright would be one of the ten best picture nominees in 2011.

The world's falling to pieces, but the headlines on TV and the newspapers are dominated by varying reports on the state of the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

I asked one of Hollywood's biggest players about the rumours and he shook his head and told me: 'Brad and Angelina? They're fine, everything's really fine. There's a lot of hot air over nothing.

'Angelina's going to Venice in a couple of weeks to make the Tourist with Johnny Depp and Brad will go visit her as long as he can get into the city of love without creating a riot.'

The man who gave me the above quote rarely, if ever, dishes on personal stuff, but he told me that he's just baffled by all the hoopla and untruths.

Well, frankly, no one knows what goes on inside of a couple's relationship but I would put more stock in what the powerful Hollywood figure told me than some of the fairy tales I've reading the past 48 hours.